Sahuarita High students Carissa Gallego and Ariana Bencomo (right) are part of a group building a Habitat for Humanity home that will be shipped to Amado. Photo by jaime richardson | Green Valley News Oct 9, 2009
Students take their work seriously, donning hard hats and braving rickety scaffolding while learning the ins and outs of constructing a house. They need to have completed at least one year of woodshop in order to qualify for the program, Condra said. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
49 favorite Arizona getaways Oct 6, 2009
Don the yellow slickers and lighted hard hats just like the miners used to do and ride a lumbering train 1,500 feet into the side of a mountain. Led by guides, retired Phelps Dodge employees who worked the mines, you'll hear stories about the dangers and drama of working underground and how it was done. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Festive prophecy fulfilled … guess who's coming to dinner? Oct 4, 2009
And yet here we are in the North Melbourne Town Hall, where a team in hard hats and safety vests is assembling a near-perfect, high-tech replica of the Santa Maria delle Grazie refectory wall as part of this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival. The panels of the painting - which capture the moment of upheaval when Jesus tells his apostles one of them will betray him - seem bathed in their own unearthly light as the curators and technicians mill around the work. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
EDITORIAL: Dealing with domestic abuse Sep 30, 2009
The government's economic stimulus money isn't just for hard hats, contractors and teachers. It's also keeping battered women's advocates on the job and compensating crime victims for lost wages and uncovered medical costs. (Fresno Bee)
Where are the jobs? Sep 26, 2009
So I'm predicting that this could be another employment opportunity for that hard-hit segment of jobless hard hats. Remember, when one door closes in the employment world, you've got to find an open window -- just make sure it's an energy-efficient window. (CNN)
Newlands Training Offers Fork Lift Truck Training Courses in Dorset to Raise Awareness of Safe Driving Sep 21, 2009
Newlands Training Safe Fork Lift Truck Operating Check List - Wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) i.e. hard hats, gloves, safety boots etc. - Drive at a steady speed and within the capabilities of the truck - Plan your moves in advance to avoid a lot of unnecessary travel and wasted time and stress on yourself - Read, understand and follow the manufacturer's recommendations in the Operator's Manual for the truck - Wear the safety lap belt when operating the machine - Consider... (PR Newswire)
Apprentice trumps master Bennett Sep 20, 2009
Brisbane's defence was characterised by cataclysmic collisions that had the 50,225 fans reaching for their hard hats. We got the better of it in the beginning,'' Henjak said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Scenes From The Great American Scream Sep 15, 2009
Some, like the contingent of coal miners in hard hats with anti-cap-and-trade signs, had a concrete beef with the administration. But for most, there was both an incredible specificity to their protestations--all those czars, and ACORN, and Obama's missing birth certificate--and a fuzzy vagueness. (CBS News)
Carter School gets needed roof courtesy of Mass. College of Art architecture class Sep 14, 2009
Through sweltering heat and heavy downpours, the graduate students, in hard hats, hauled heavy lumber, welded steel columns, and shoveled 4-foot-deep holes. Few had ever worked in construction. (Boston Globe)
After layoffs, states try to create entrepreneurs Sep 8, 2009
For years, the unemployment system was geared to help jobless manufacturing workers weather economic downturns so they can be ready to pick up their lunch buckets and put on hard hats when times were better, said Randall Eberts, president of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Mich. The program was designed to help those workers considered "dislocated" meaning they weren't likely to get their old jobs back. (MSNBC -- Business)
Toeing the fourth line Sep 6, 2009
More time for the hard hats. More rest for the skilled guys. (Boston Globe)
Wellesley High School project moving ahead Sep 5, 2009
The latest fashion crazes don t mean much to them they ll wear a uniform of hard hats and work boots. Most likely, they will be rather noisy. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Meriwether's closing Saturday Sep 3, 2009
seriously wrote on Sep 2, 2009 9:06 AM:" are you people actually saying it shouldn't take them all summer to get this done??? Have you ever actually watched the city workers??....They lift a shovel and have to take a break.....frame a sidewalk...take a break...put their hard hats on....take a break....I have actually sat and watched some of them working on 4th and they took an hour lunch and not even kidding you...20 minutes later they were on another break for 15... and then about an hour... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Kelly era begins Thursday at Oregon Sep 3, 2009
The hard hats are on, so to speak, Thurmond said. Under Bellotti, Oregon became a national presence, establishing itself back in the days of Joey Harrington. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Bigger, faster McAdoo ready for Citadel Sep 3, 2009
"The defensive line earned praise throughout training camp for bringing their hard hats each and every day and setting the tempo in practice. "Yeah, he (Coach Davis) talked to us about that. He said if we go out and set the tone, then the rest of the team would follow," McAdoo said. "Al (Mullins), he sets the tempo. (North Carolina Sports -- Rivals.com)
Ask the AD -- August Edition Sep 2, 2009
Finally, we get them into hard hats and walk them out to the job site and show them where their locker would be in the locker room and where the 50-yard line is in the new stadium. That is about the most powerful "presentation" as far as the prospective student-athletes are concerned. (Siusalukis.com)
Rev. Hudson: Last note of the Kennedy familial symphony played out Sep 2, 2009
They were gay and straight, veterans and peaceniks, hard hats and white-collar men and women, students, senior citizens, most standing upright, lost in thought, a few leaning on canes as if the world just got a little heavier. They came from old Irish families removed by generations from the boat and from new immigrant clans, just arrived in America. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
An outpouring of emotions Aug 28, 2009
Union carpenters holding hard hats, immigrants from across the globe, students with backpacks, office workers in suits, and retirees who stuffed envelopes for his first campaign four decades ago all came out for a miles-long salute that seemed to capture in its multitudes the breadth of Kennedy s connection to his home state. It was an extraordinary kick-off to a three-day celebration of Kennedy s life, which continues today with a public viewing of his casket at the Kennedy library and a... (Boston Globe)
BACK TO SCHOOL: Brand new Willard almost ready for students Aug 27, 2009
In April 2008, Willard students donned hard hats and broke ground to commemorate the start of construction on the new Willard School and in September they cheered as construction workers lowered the final piece of their school s frame a piece of decking they had all signed that week. The town received occupancy of the building on Aug. 14 and demolition of the old structure commenced Aug. 21. (Concord Journal, MA)
Tomatoes at dawn! Aug 27, 2009
Many men were shirtless while others wore old clothes, hard hats, goggles or protective plastic sheets. Shopkeepers put up huge plastic covers on their store fronts or boarded them up to protect their properties from the sea of red mush. (iAfrica.com)
Bay Bridge workers face test Labor Day weekend Aug 24, 2009
The engineers, the ironworkers, the men and women in hard hats and Day-Glo safety vests all know it and talk about it. Ed Meyer is an ironworker foreman, a big, rangy guy who wears a harness and safety clips as if he were working on a flying trapeze. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ageing waratah due for the axe Aug 20, 2009
When you're a hard-working NSW Premier taking a beating in the polls and the repeated wearing of hard hats just doesn't seem to be cutting through, what better way to show you're ''getting on the with job'' than granting a television crew access to your work day. So it transpired that Channel Nine's state political reporter Kevin Wilde spent a day with Nathan Rees for a report that aired last night. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Don Hewitt: A Life in News for a Man Who Shaped TV Aug 20, 2009
He was a kid from New Rochelle, N.Y., who had formed a love for news as well as a regular-guy bond with the "Lions and Rotarians and schoolteachers and hard hats" (as he put it in his 2001 memoir, "Tell Me a Story") _ the kind of people to whom "60 Minutes" catered. With "60 Minutes," he was doing TV journalism his way. (Newsmax)
Sales tax holiday set this weekend Aug 19, 2009
Accessories (generally) - barrettes, elastic ponytail holders, wallets, watches, backpacks - unless for use by elementary and secondary students, baseball cleats and pants, belt buckles (without belt), boots - climbing, fishing, rubber work boots, ski, waders, buttons and zippers, cloth and lace, knitting yarns, and other fabrics, dry cleaning services, football pants, golf gloves, handbags and purses, handkerchiefs, hard hats, helmets - bike, baseball, football, hockey, motorcycle, sports, ice... (Rockport Pilot, TX)
Grieving for a city Aug 18, 2009
Metal scaffolding has been erected along the entire length of the nave as men in hard hats work at shoring up pillars. "When these things happen - we mustn't ask why did God want this?" says the rector, Don Nunzio, also in a hard hat, as well as his usual clerical garb. (BBC News)
Shoppers to save this weekend on state, local sales tax Aug 18, 2009
Taxed items include accessories (including barrettes, elastic ponytail holders, wallets and watches), backpacks (unless for use by elementary and secondary students), baseball cleats and pants, belt buckles without a belt, boots (climbing, fishing, rubber work boots, ski, waders), buttons and zippers, cloth and lace, knitting yarns and other fabrics, dry cleaning services, football pants, golf gloves, handbags and purses, handkerchiefs, hard hats, helmets (bike, baseball, football, hockey,... (Sealy News, TX)
After 100 Years, W.Va. Mill Still Standing Aug 15, 2009
In the old days, workers wore orange hard hats and managers wore white. Today, they're all yellow. (CBS News)
Changing market holds lessons for contractor Aug 12, 2009
But there is a good amount of competition, thanks both to the growth in school projects and the recession, which has forced many private-project contractors to throw their hard hats into the ring. G/C has bid on 20 school projects this year, Conger said. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
• Crews blanket Bassett Gluch with straw Aug 11, 2009
Finally, workers wearing hard hats and goggles got a momentary reprieve as the helicopter sailed toward a nearby ridge top where it unleashed an explosion of straw in the sky. "All this straw flying around definitely hurts - it's like getting hit with needles," said fire rehabilitation worker Kyle Telaroli. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Baxter: The squeeze chute is the devil's playtoy (2) Aug 9, 2009
The fact that I am not personally disabled is due primarily to reliable equipment, fast hands, hard hats and good help. One fall I headed up to Grouse Creek for four days of fall works. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
County teachers attend technology courses Aug 8, 2009
Attendees were greeted by colorful displays of orange cones and hard hats to usher them into Tech Blitz 09 - Constructing Technology and Learning without Boundaries. And as an initial measure to demonstrate the sessions were geared strictly toward electronic technology, instructional materials were contained on tiny pen drives rather than the traditional - and bulky - copied and stapled handouts. (Wetumpka Herald, AL)
Sales tax holidays? Big deal Aug 7, 2009
Its like that with hats: baseball, fishing, golf and knitted caps are tax-free during the Texas sales tax holiday, but hard hats and helmets for biking or playing baseball, football, hockey, or for riding a motorcycle, are not. Where and when to goOnce youve decided to take a sales tax holiday, youll need to figure out where and when to go. (MSNBC -- Travel)
How to make a first impression Aug 6, 2009
We got to wear safety glasses and hard hats, which was exciting until of course we were reminded that the safety gear was largely for liability purposes uh oh. As the word tour would indicate, we got to see everything from the ticket office to the entrance ramp of the arena to the kitchen to a workman with a Minnesota Vikings hard hat to the suites and the floor of the arena. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Despite title game loss, future is bright for 320 Aug 3, 2009
The Stars then lost Saturday night, 34-5, to Mitchell, and then dropped the championship game to the Hard Hats, 6-2, Sunday night. That win on Friday was huge for us, and then the loss on Saturday was a bit of an aberration I thought. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
More articles by Heckler Jul 29, 2009
POLITICIANS are imploring people like me to buy into the housing market - boost the economy, create jobs in construction, give our premiers the opportunity to wear hard hats and talk to couples with babies about how they can buy a home they can't afford. So, willing to take on my nation-building duty, I began my quest to purchase my first home by browsing online to see what was available. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Time to take pulse of states Jul 28, 2009
Hard hats, fluoro vests and hospital gowns will be de rigueur. Sure beats the economy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
World Museum of Mining hosts summer entertainment series Jul 27, 2009
"They are fitted with hard hats and battery packs with a light," Green said. The tours are offered three times a day and may be purchased separately or as part of a museum admission fee package. (Montana Standard, MT)
Bridging troubled waters Jul 25, 2009
While Palo Alto water customers have little reason to pay attention to the work near the Pulgas Temple, their water bills are a clear indicator of spiking infrastructure costs tied to the cranes and hard hats around the reservoir. This month, Palo Alto water bills -- already among the highest in the mid-Peninsula region -- went up by 5 percent. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
FIYA fun heats up Jul 25, 2009
Partici-pants in hard hats and construction vests roamed the crowd, flashlights swinging as blackouts hit the stage in preparation as the Northside High School Step Team from Lafayette made its way to the stage. As the lights and bass lit up, the crowd shouted to match the music and the energy of the performers. (New Iberia, LA)
Listening to the land - 91-year-old retired forest ranger on a quest to leave one more piece of land better than he found it Jul 25, 2009
At the door, underneath the sign that says Welcome to the Castle Moore, are logging hard hats, snowshoes, a Herculean flashlight, hip boots. Yes, they belong to an old man. (Missoulian, MT)
Power Pros Touch iPhone Review Jul 23, 2009
Now it s time to put on the super-deformed hard hats and get to work, as this $3. 99 scaled down ode to the real deal just doesn t win out against its competition no matter which way you look at it. (IGN Wireless Games)
Pack gathers for Ireland's first wolf-whistling championships Jul 23, 2009
On Wednesday Irvinestown played host to Ireland's first ever wolf-whistling championships, complete with scaffolding, hard hats, and plenty of women. The men of the town were more than eager to show their appreciation of the fairer sex, eagerly donning hard hats and lining up along the pavement to demonstrate their whistling skills. (BBC News -- Europe)
Ao Nuevo Island: Where the wild things are Jul 18, 2009
Humans are forced to wear hard hats to protect against beak and foot attacks ... Humans are forced to wear hard hats to protect against beak and foot attacks. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Demo and disposal Jul 18, 2009
All of which means hard hats are a must on job sites. This article is for Paid Subscribers ONLY.. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
Parking garage construction begins Jul 18, 2009
At least a dozen construction workers poured and spread cement Thursday morning in a 25-foot-deep hole next to Main Street as city officials and others with the project watched in hard hats. City Engineering Director Rorie Watt said that with an aggressive construction schedule, the garage frame could be up by winter and interior finishes on the associated transit center completed during the cold months. (Juneau Empire)
The responders’ view Jul 17, 2009
Meaker said that as each family member was extricated, rescuers removed their hard hats and placed them over their hearts. LCFD Capt. Bryan Davies said he was relieved that the search was over. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Spectra Energy Conducts Tourof Oxford Compressor Station Jul 15, 2009
Then, donning hard hats and protective glasses, groups of about a dozen visitors at a time received tours of the control/auxiliary building which contains air compressors, a generator, computers and a security system, and the compressor building where the gas is actually compressed and cooled. The complex also includes a garage/maintenance building, a waste building and a fuel gas building. (Voices, CT)
Hundreds converge to assist in cleanup Jul 13, 2009
Several manned volunteer check-in stations and passed out hard hats and bright orange vests. CERT members Ronda Callister and Derald Clark explained they were required to complete roughly 30 hours of training covering 10 topic areas including first aid, evacuation tips and triage. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Shuttle launch scrubbed for second day Jul 13, 2009
For many of the 16 days, the station will resemble a construction site, except that astronauts will be in space suits instead of hard hats and operating robotic arms instead of cranes. And just like at a job site, it will all be going on at the same time. (CNN -- International)
Hoping for a new beginning Jul 12, 2009
Workers wore hard hats as they cleaned the interior of the church, which was mostly damaged by water, due to danger of wet plaster falling from the high ceiling. The Rev. Mike Erpelding, pastor of St. Joseph, and several parishioners joined the workers at the scene. (Sioux City Journal)
Hogs Show Toughness During Workout Jul 11, 2009
The workout which was open to the media ended with six players putting on hard hats and smashing large rocks near the practice field. Were mentally tougher as a team, Veltkamp said. (HawgsIllustrated.com)
The iafrica.com debate Jul 8, 2009
In a sector that contributes a significant percentage of the GDP, the hard hats earn a pittance for their long hours of toil. If democracy is founded on the principles of liberty, equality and justice, miners are being royally shafted on three counts. (iAfrica.com)
The Feminists Demand and Receive Jul 8, 2009
Many people worried about increasing the national debt to create government jobs, but his proposal was attractive because it conjured up visions of crews in hard hats repairing our nation's infrastructure, roads, bridges and electrical grids, and building long-needed highways and schools. We were told that the purpose of this extraordinary deficit spending in the stimulus package was to jolt the economy. (Townhall.com)
Beacon Power Gets U.S. Energy Loan After Three Years, 96 Forms, $1 Million Jul 8, 2009
Beacon, whose plant ONeill visited last week, can install its flywheels by getting a backhoe and hiring a bunch of guys with hard hats, he said. To contact the reporter on this story: in Washington at. (Bloomberg -- US)
Introducing Recessionary Road Jul 6, 2009
Somebody has to make all the materials that go into the job: the asphalt, the construction equipment, the hard hats. Less than $55 billion of 400 billion non-tax-break dollars has actually been paid out, and not all of that has actually reached stimulus projects yet. (Slate)
Teens don hard hats and smiles Jul 5, 2009
Sixteen teenagers with hard hats and hammers tore into an abandoned house that had been repossessed by the city, hoping to make the neighborhood look a little bit better. The house at 515 Walker St. had accumulated code violations to the point it needed to be demolished, according to Code Enforcement Officer Bill Gindlesperger. (Lake Wales News, FL)
What's Up? Jul 4, 2009
"Daydreams," its take on "A Midsummer Night's Dream," has construction workers in hard hats, puppets and a Prospect Park staging. 2 p.m., other shows Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through July 26, free. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The time to talk about racial divide Jul 4, 2009
To the right of the stairs at the monument, I watched several young white workers in hard hats as they restored its stone foundation. As the readings began, they silenced the machines that just moments before had drowned out all other sounds. (Boston Globe)
Gautrain on track Jul 4, 2009
Hard hats and steel tips. GMA provides the necessary safety gear, hard hats, reflective vests and steel-toed shoes ... While the scruffy photojournalists put the gear on without complaint, television journalists only reluctantly cover perfectly coifed hair with hard hats and exchange felt-trimmed heels for boots. (iAfrica.com)
Crew prepares 25,000 pounds of fireworks for Boston Esplanade Fourth of July show Jul 2, 2009
The three rusty, groaning barges anchored yesterday in the middle of the Charles River have all the glitz and excitement of a construction site: power tools, mounds of sand, rough-cut wooden framing, a dozen workers in hard hats, and a portable toilet. The difference: 25,000 pounds of fireworks, 5 miles of yellow wire, and one green button marked GO.. (Boston Globe)
Texas museum to open display of 500 cowboy hats Jul 1, 2009
Large selection of hard hats, liners and accessories. Buy Now. (Yahoo News)
Makeover extends to neighbors Jun 30, 2009
By noontime Monday, about 150 spectators had gathered on a lawn across the street from Ward's house to watch volunteers in blue "Extreme Makeover" T-shirts and white hard hats finish siding and framing on the front of the second floor. Inside, workers were hanging and finishing drywall. (Erie Times-News, PA)
DOWN SHE GOES Jun 28, 2009
But the kids, all in blue "Extreme Makeover" shirts and white hard hats, weren't done yet ... They sat in the grass, swung on the banister of the wheelchair ramp and clunked each other's hard hats. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Kingdom Hall facelift Jun 27, 2009
And people lots of people wearing a rainbow-like assortment of hard hats. Lansbury said that there were several skill levels among the volunteers, which could be described from professional tradespeople to knowledgeable amateurs and willing volunteers, with the professionals training and supervising the volunteers in their charge and overseeing the work. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Plum Creek workers hand in their hats Jun 27, 2009
Workers at Plum Creek Timber Co.'s mill in Pablo left their hard hats behind after their last shifts at the now-defunct plant ... In silent testimony, workers at the Plum Creek Timber Co. sawmill in Pablo hung their hard hats on the fenceposts as they left the logyard behind on their last day of work ... It was very solemn out there, said Polson resident Stefanie Nordberg, who saw the hard hats while driving past the mill and started taking photographs. (Missoulian, MT)
